Google mail and other services ‘disrupted’

NEW YORK (AP) — Google’s mail and application services are unavailable to some users.

Google’s apps status dashboard shows that its Mail, Drive file storage service and office-application services are “disrupted.” Its administrator control panel, which lets companies manage their Google applications, is completely down.

The disruptions started affecting people worldwide around 8 a.m. Eastern time.

Google Inc. did not immediately respond to questions about the cause of the outage and how many people were affected.